Fully 3D GPU PET reconstruction Articles uri icon

publication date

  • August 2011

start page

  • 169

end page

  • 171

issue

  • supl.1

volume

  • 648

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

  • 0168-9002

Electronic International Standard Serial Number (EISSN)

  • 1872-9576

abstract

  • [NIMA_4th International Conference on Imaging techniques in Subatomic Physics, Astrophysics, Medicine, Biology and Industry] Fully 3D iterative tomographic image reconstruction is computationally very demanding. Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) has been proposed for many years as potential accelerators in complex scientific problems, but it has not been used until the recent advances in the programmability of GPUs that the best available reconstruction codes have started to be implemented to be run on GPUs. This work presents a GPU-based fully 3D PET iterative reconstruction software. This new code may reconstruct sinogram data from several commercially available PET scanners. The most important and time-consuming parts of the code, the forward and backward projection operations, are based on an accurate model of the scanner obtained with the Monte Carlo code PeneloPET and they have been massively parallelized on the GPU. For the PET scanners considered, the GPU-based code is more than 70 times faster than a similar code running on a single core of a fast CPU, obtaining in both cases the same images. The code has been designed to be easily adapted to reconstruct sinograms from any other PET scanner, including scanner prototypes.

subjects

  • Biology and Biomedicine

keywords

  • tomographic reconstruction; positron emission tomography; graphics processing unit